Air Safety Crisis Grows After Midland Jet Collision
A Midland mid air crash killed seven bystanders and pilots, amid a broader pattern of air traffic woes. The Grand Canyon collision last June killed 128. Officials blamed red tape, urging decisive action as costs of major accidents mount into millions. Commerce Secretary Weeks defended safety despite rising hazards.
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Midland
Air Force
Grand Canyon
Commerce Department
House of Representatives
Senate
Mike Monroney
Senate Aviation
Department of Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Owens
Ita
ACPA
Austin
CAA
Jerome Lederer
Flight Safety Foundation
Lederer
Commerce
Sinclair Weeks
Hankerings By Henry McLemore in Holland for St Nicholas Day
Rotter dam writer Henry McLemore recalls Dutch Christmas customs and St Nicholas Day celebrated December 6. He describes St Nicholas arriving from Spain, the blackamoor helper, and the tradition of filling wooden shoes with hay oats or potatoes for the horse. He muses on stockings vs wooden shoes and hints at publishing findings.
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Henry McLemore
Rotterdam
Holland
Germany
New York
Washington
Mary
St. Nick
Sant Claus
St. Nicholas
Spain
Maas
Cty
Blackamo
St. Nicholas Day
Den
St.Niehbhes
St Nicholas
Enduring truth in realist faith to guide world action
Editorial excerpt from the Odessa American 1956 argues that only 100 percent realism can sustain structures built on truth. It cites William Chamberlin on UN roles in Hungary and Egypt, contrasts beliefs with reality, and praises Jesus as the ultimate realist. The piece reflects midcentury press tone and religious commentary.
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William Henry Chamberlin
United Nation
Wall Street Journal
Chamberlin
Qamed
Paul i
Jesus
Friendship and faith in Hugh Black’s teachings
The writer recalls discovering Hugh Black’s Friendship in a cardboard volume and distills key ideas: faith in man and God, friendship as a spiritual duty, the Golden Rule, and the belief that true friendship endures when rooted in soul fellowship. Quotes Bacon and Plato to underline friendship’s moral force.
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Henry Link
Hugh Black
St. George United Free Church
Edinburgh
Bacon
Q and A on lager beer and Bermuda islands
Q Why do we say lager beer The German word lager means storehouse The beer is named because barrels of lager beer were placed in a storehouse to age Q How many mands comprise the Bermoda group A There are some 360 different islands in the Bermodas.
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Bermoda
Bermodas
National Whirligig On Democratic Liberal Plan For 1960
National observer Ray Tucker reports a rising Democratic faction urges a prompt ultra liberal program on Civil Rights. The plan aims to win Northern and Western states while potentially losing Dixie states like Virginia and Texas. It cites Southern bloc influence, hoped gains in governors’ races, and new liberal senators to back a 266 electoral strategy for 1960.
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Washington
Dixie
Virginia
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
Capitol Hill
Democratic National Committee
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Ilinois
Michigan
California
Adlai Stevensim
Missouri
Stevensort - Kefauver
Senate
Lyndon
B. Johnson
Harry F. Byrd
Kentucky
A. B. Chandler
Stevenson
Ike
Joseph S. Clark
Frank Church
Idaho
John Carroll
Colorado
Ike—Hartiman
Furcolo
Williams
Defining public interest strikes in Taft Hartley era
An opinion urging amendment to Taft Hartley to define strikes harming national welfare. The piece targets the ILA of New York for port disruption on the East Coast, ties strikes to gangster links, and argues government intervention was needed to avert $180 million in losses. It warns against strikes in shipping and communications and calls for evaluating unions by public interest.
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United States
ILA
New York City
Afl-Cio
New York
St. Lawrence Seaway
Galveston
Texas
TLA
ITA
K Conthness
Festores Syndicate, Inc
Memoir Memoir of Bickel and a Petersburg Past
The piece narrates Karl Bickel's memories of early Soviet Russia and the Kerensky era, detailing encounters with princes, generals, and journalists. It recalls Prince Mike Cantecuzene, Grant family connections, Raymond Robbins, and a tense NYC press milieu, ending with vague hints of interviews and a Plaza table setting.
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Sarasota
Fla
Lake’ Land
Southern Florida College
Boris Sokoloff
Doctor Skoroloff
Imperial
Alexander Kerezaky
Lenin Trotsky
Latvia
Kerensky
Mike Cantecuzene
Calvary
Mike
U.S. Grant
Grant
Frederick Dent Grant
Prince Mike
Vienna
Franz Josef
Karl Bickel
Bickel
United Press
U.P
St. Petersburg
Raymond Robbins
Harold Ickes
Red Cross
Lenin
Trotsky
Robbins
Crossword Puzzle Sult 51 Squeeze BOWN
Puzzle entry lists clues including Western and Nothing but the grid is partially readable with misprints and scattered letter fragments, making the rest of the solution unclear. No full names dates or organizations are identifiable in the legible portion.
Marines Drill Instructors Shape Belief In Power
Randolph Pate, Marine Corps commandant, cites recruit training as indoctrinating young men with the notion that no one can beat them and they can defeat two opponents their size or any size. He notes this belief underpins much of their claimed combat prowess.
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Marine
Randolph Pate
Marine Corps
Om Recruit Training
War and strength decide nations, not U.N. words
Eagle Rock writer Jack Moffitt argues war proves outcomes, citing Roosevelt on independence and ending slavery, then asserts Soviet restraint hinges on U.S. power. He contends United Nations discourse saved no one in Hungary.
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Eagle Rock
Cal
Meton
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Soviet Union
United Nation
U.N
Hungary
Jack Moffitt
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Iles C. Pogtaretse
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Texad
Mann
By Hugh Black
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MiNem
By Ray Tucker
West and Western States
Connecticut
Ohio
Illinois
Oregon
Qr Stevenson
George FE. Sokolsky
Karl
Baltic
John McGraw
New York Giants
Cory Dolan
Ku Klux Klan
Giants
McGraw
Andy
Dolan
W. O. McGeehan
New York Herald-Tribune
Tomor
Bown
They
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